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Freshwater and soil habitats hold rich microbial communities. Here we address commonalities and differences between both habitat types. While freshwater and soil habitats differ considerably in habitat characteristics organismic exchange may be high and microbial communities may even be inoculated by organisms from the respective other habitat. We analyze diversity pattern and the overlap of taxa of eukaryotic microbial communities in freshwater and soil based on Illumina HiSeq high-throughput sequencing of the amplicon V9 diversity. We analyzed corresponding freshwater and soil samples from 30 locations, i.e. samples from different lakes across Germany and soil samples from the respective catchment areas. Aside from principle differences in the community composition of soils and freshwater, in particular with respect to the relative contribution of fungi and algae, soil habitats have a higher richness. Nevertheless, community similarity between different soil sites is considerably lower as compared to the similarity between different freshwater sites. We show that the overlap of organisms co-occurring in freshwater and soil habitats is surprisingly low. Even though closely related taxa occur in both habitats distinct OTUs were mostly habitat–specific and most OTUs occur exclusively in either soil or freshwater. The distribution pattern of the few co-occurring lineages indicates that even most of these are presumably rather habitat-specific. Their presence in both habitat types seems to be based on a stochastic drift of particularly abundant but habitat-specific taxa rather than on established populations in both types of habitats.

Protistan and fungal diversity in soils and freshwater lakes are substantially different